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3 days ago | 
fordcountychronicle.com | Will Brumleve |Andrew Rosten
PAXTON — Citing the stress of the job, Travis Duley is stepping down as superintendent of the Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district at the end of this month — three years before his contract is set to expire. The unexpected news came in an email to staff — who shared it with the Ford County Chronicle — on Tuesday, June 3. The […]
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3 days ago | 
fordcountychronicle.com | Will Brumleve |Andrew Rosten
Man sentenced after pleading guilty to 4 Class 1 felony countsFORD COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT PAXTON — A former Gibson City man was sentenced to 32 years in state prison after pleading guilty in Ford County Circuit Court on Tuesday, May 13, to four counts of possession of child pornography. Ryan J.
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3 days ago | 
fordcountychronicle.com | Will Brumleve |Andrew Rosten
PAXTON — The Ford County Public Health Department board approved a resolution Tuesday afternoon to accept Gibson Area Hospital & Health Services’ offer to buy the health department’s former senior programs building in Paxton for $120,000.
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1 week ago | 
fordcountychronicle.com | Will Brumleve |Andrew Rosten
GIBSON CITY — The Gibson City-Melvin Sibley school board on Wednesday, May 21, approved several sizable donations, including a $10,000 anonymous donation toward the purchase of a new flattop grill for GCMS Elementary School’s kitchen. The new grill will replace one that is decades old, having been donated to the school district an estimated 30 years ago by Gibson City’s McDonald’s restaurant when it was replacing its own, Superintendent Jeremy Darnell said.
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1 week ago | 
fordcountychronicle.com | Will Brumleve |Andrew Rosten
MEMORIAL DAY 2025Hess: Every day should be a day to remember them PAXTON — During Monday’s Memorial Day observance at Glen Cemetery in Paxton, retired U.S. Marines Sgt. Timothy Hess had only enough time to tell the stories of just a handful of his true heroes — names like 1st Lt. Jack Lummus of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, medic Calvin Bouknight of the U.S. Army and Lt. Commander Lyndsay Evans and […]
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2 weeks ago | 
fordcountychronicle.com | Will Brumleve |Andrew Rosten
GIBSON CITY — The Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley school board on Wednesday, May 21, approved several sizable donations, including a $10,000 anonymous donation toward the purchase of a new flattop grill for GCMS Elementary School’s kitchen. The new grill will replace one that is decades old, having been donated to the school district an estimated 30 years ago by Gibson City’s McDonald’s […]
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2 weeks ago | 
fordcountychronicle.com | Will Brumleve |Andrew Rosten
PAXTON — Toward the end of Monday’s hour-long meeting of the Ford County Board’s farm committee, its chairman, Greg Niewold of rural Loda, proposed correcting the county’s cash-rent lease agreement with Nick Purcell for the county owned Hatfield/Bowen Farm in Button Township, saying the leased acreage should be lowered to reflect what is actually farmable. In March, the county board approved Purcell’s $320-peracre bid for the cash-rent leasing of 125.7 acres of the 157-acre farm this crop season.
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2 weeks ago | 
fordcountychronicle.com | Will Brumleve |Andrew Rosten
GIBSON CITY — Robbie Dinkins is appealing the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley school board’s decision to fire him amid claims that he maintained inappropriate relationships with students. GCMS Superintendent Jeremy Darnell said Wednesday, May 14, that he received Dinkins’ written request for a hearing — to be held before a board- selected hearing officer, paid for in full by the school district […]
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2 weeks ago | 
fordcountychronicle.com | Will Brumleve |Andrew Rosten
PAXTON — The next primary election ballot — on March 17, 2026 — will include a nonbinding referendum asking Paxton voters if they feel the city should allow backyard chickens.
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3 weeks ago | 
fordcountychronicle.com | Will Brumleve |Andrew Rosten
GIBSON CITY — Robbie Dinkins is appealing the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley school board’s decision to fire him amid claims that he maintained inappropriate relationships with students. GCMS Superintendent Jeremy Darnell said Wednesday, May 14, that he received Dinkins’ written request for a hearing — to be held before a board-selected hearing officer, paid for in full by the school district — […]
